8 Doctor Who Moments The Creators Don't Like
Living happily ever after with David Tennant? Not as good as it sounds, apparently.
Anyone who creates things for a living knows that it's hard to feel great about everything you make. Even if there's nothing wrong with the content you've produced from an outsider's perspective, creating something from scratch and being with it every single step of the way makes it easy to spot those minor flaws, those small details that you wish you had the time (or the foresight) to change.
So, imagine working on something like Doctor Who, a show that has millions of fans counting on you to deliver something great, week after week, year after year. It's impossible to keep a consistently high standard on a complex show like this, and nobody knows this better than the creators themselves.
Even though it's quite rare, there are times when the show's various actors, writers and producers have opened up about certain moments - usually moments they were responsible for creating - that they just don't like, whether it's a single line, a single scene, or even an entire run of episodes.
Nobody can strike gold 100% of the time, and whether you agree with them or not, Doctor Who's production talent sometimes has negative things to say about the show they help create.
8. Matt Smith Hates His Face In The 50th Anniversary Special
2013 was a year for fans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, and to that end, we were treated to a spectacular celebratory episode: The Day Of The Doctor.
Bringing together the Tenth and the Eleventh Doctors for their first (and, to date, their last) onscreen team-up together, the episode is a pacy, fan-pleasing and explosive romp that's adored by just about everyone, although star Matt Smith does have an issue with one weirdly specific aspect of his performance.
While appearing on a panel to discuss The Day Of The Doctor in November 2013, Smith reacted to the final scene of the episode - featuring every single Doctor stood side-by-side - by lamenting the "stupid" face he had chosen to pull while filming it:
"It's funny, as an actor... one can't help but go 'Why am I pulling such a stupid face at the end?'"
He then puts on a massive gurn, mocking his own face during the scene in question.
While there's an element of jokiness and sarcasm to Smith's complaint here, there's also an element of truth too - he seems a little bit embarrassed about the face he chose to pull, even though it totally works from a viewer's perspective.